The book is about the concept old major brings up at the meeting, animalism. They revolt against mr jones and live in peace, mr jones try's to claim the farm back, fails, and tries again and fails again. The pigs abuse the rules and run the farm. The is an actual representation of the Russian revolution.
In the year 1917, most of the Russian population lost faith in Czar Nicholas ll, corruption in the government was all over the place, the economy was rubbish, and the Czar repeated dissolved the Duma, the Russian parliament established after the 1905 revolution, when the the Duma went against the czars will, this caused the February revolution, the first phase of the Russian revolution.